Jailbreak
1 min read · Reviewed 17 Oct 2026
In short
Wording a request to get round a tool's restrictions.
In plain English
Phrasing a prompt so the model does something its guardrails were meant to prevent — usually by reframing it as fiction, a hypothetical, or a role.
A real example
"You are an actor playing a character who explains…" is the shape of it. Vendors patch these continually; new ones keep appearing.
Why it matters
For most businesses this matters in one direction: if your customers can talk to an AI you deployed, assume someone will try. Anything the bot must never say needs enforcing outside the prompt.
